E-commerce or the buying and selling of goods online. WordPress is fast becoming a easy to setup and use e-commerce solution thanks to a variety of plugins, themes and extensions.

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Pros/Cons of “WP e-commerce” and “Shopp” plugins

I've been looking around for ecommerce functionality for a project that I'm going to be working on. My partner and I will be converting an existing static catalog site with lots of items. We want to ...
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WP E-Commerce VS Shopp VS WooCommerce VS JigoShop [closed]

Hi I am in the process of creating a website for an importer who wants to showcase his products. There are over 1,500 products and they also need to be categorised by brand. At this point for this ...
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What Wordpress E-Commerce theme should I use to get started?

I've done created a LOT of Wordpress themes and plugins, but I haven't done much with the Wordpress E-Commerce plugin. If someone asked me what theme they should start playing with to learn about ...
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Recommended eCommerce Plugin for a T-Shirt Sales Business?

I want to create a website for my T-Shirt business. I've tried osCommerce and it's ok for a basic setup but even something simple as installing an addon for SEO turns into a nightmare of database ...
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Scaling a WP eCommerce site

Related to this question. Any recommendation on tools, plugins for optimizing a large eCommerce site on WP. Currently hitting 1000 items and 5000 more items coming. It seems the optimizations would ...
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WP E-commerce: Showing 3 random products from current category when viewing product

This is more of a template tag question than a programming question, but since WPEC's wiki and forum is quite useless I had to give it a shot here. Using shortcodes you can easily include a given ...
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Automattic's eCommerce Plugin

Question Does anyone know what plugin Automattic uses for their eCommerce functionality in the MU installation of WordPress located on the free sub-domains at wordpress.com? Please share where it ...
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how to change displaying order of products in wp ecommerce

I am working on a wp-ecommerce enabled site and am trying to change the display order of the products on the product grid page. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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How do I get WooCommerce to automatically recreate pages?

I had to uninstall WooCommerce plugin (I deleted the tables it created as well) and now I reinstalled the plugin and I doesn't automatically recreate the WooCommerce Pages. Am I stuck having to ...
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Shopping Cart Integration — Experiences with Popular eCommerce Solutions

Researching various shopping cart solutions for a WordPress based eCommerce website. Based on research, it seems that two plugins stand out: shopplugin.net phpurchase.com Can anyone share their ...
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Enabling free shipping on Woo Commerce by specific items

I would like to know if it is possible to enable free shipping with Woo Commerce only if certain items (or items of certain categories / shipping classes) are included in the cart. The Free Shipping ...
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WP e-commerce: getting products by SKU

I'm working on a site that uses the WP e-commerce plugin (Gold version) and I need to display a list of products that match a list of SKUs. Users fill in a form, and a list of product SKUs is ...
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Recommend plugins for member's only e-commerce website [closed]

I welcome recommendation from the gurus for my ecommerce website - I want to make a ecommerce website and I want it to be for members only. I want to restrict members from visiting the dashboard. I ...
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Wordpress shopping cart that supports 2 tier product variation options

I need a wordpress shopping cart that will produce 2 tier product variations. For example if you pick 'option 1' for a product, sub-options 'x' 'y' 'z' will be revealed and if you pick 'option 2', ...
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Can the WP e-Commerce Plugin Support a Large Number of Products?

Is this plugin good to use on a large site with many products or should I look for another solution? I am concerned with the security as well the ability to scale. Anyone have any experience dealing ...
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Need Help Finding a Wordpress E-Commerce Plugin That Utilises Custom Post Types [closed]

I am currently in the middle of developing quite an extensive and complicated record label website that uses post types and a whole bunch of relationship mapping to map post types to one another. ...
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Does a wordpress plugin (not a membership one) exist for selling access to some webpages?

I am looking for a wordpress plugin in order to sell the access of some webpages on my website. I mean I am not looking for a "membership" plugin. I mean the user has to pay in order to view the ...
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Simple Online Payment for Event Registration

I am looking for a simple (and secure) way to accept payment for event registration. I am managing a Wordpress website for a organization that hosts events throughout the year. A handful of these ...
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Custom product fields in wp e-Commerce plugin

I want the user to be able to set a text, option values or other type of data in each product just before they add it to the cart. Just like product options. For example: The user buys a sticker ...
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Adding my own “add to cart button”

I am using Jigoshop to build an e-commerce site. The end goal is for the front page to have a featured products section. Jigoshop provides a shortcode, but the shortcode defaults to the medium ...
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Navigational drop-down lists in Wordpress?

I'm trying to simplify a set of links by placing them in a drop down list (form style) with a submit button that will take users to the page in question. Ideally, I'd like it to behave like the ...
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WP e-commerce: How to select the shipping costs calculation method according to delivery location

commerce experts, I'm developing an e-commerce website using WordPress and WP e-commerce. All works fine but I have a little problem. I would like to select the shipping costs calculation method ...
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wp e-commerce sort by stock

I have a site using wp e-commerce plugin and want to sort items by stock. I have been trying for hours without any luck: I don't have an option to sort by "SKU" in the administration (as I've read ...
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WordPress Create Post from front-end

I'm having to design an e-commerce site where users should be able to create a product from front-end. In WordPress, the product will simply be a post with custom fields like Price, Condition,....... ...
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How do I add pricing fields to a Gravity Form?

I need help. I am trying to create an album order form with my gravity form plug in and am looking to add a pricing field. I have googled the heck out of this topic and can't seem to figure out ...
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Display product SKU on page with Jigoshop

I'm using the Jigoshop plugin (everything's going great so far!) and need to display the product SKU on a page, does anyone know how to do this? p.s I would ask on the Jigoshop forum but you have to ...
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WooCommerce: multiple input field for multiple product variations

I'm trying to customize the default Woocommerce theme to my needs. I have a product that comes in two variations: it's wine, so variation A is a 6 bottle pack, and variation B is a 12 bottle wooden ...
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E commerce on Wordpress [closed]

What is involved with WordPress and trying to develop our commerce site that way? Will it integrate with our CounterPoint register and inventory system? Does it calculate weights and shipping? ...
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Jigoshop - change the order in which products show up in a grid

Using the http://jigoshop.com/ plugin, is it possible to change the order in which the products are displayed in the different grids. I'm not quite sure how it decides the order but is it possible to ...
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Can Shopp Commercial Plugin be hacked to display radio buttons instead of Dropdowns?

I need to know if the 'Shopp' e-commerce plugin can be modified to display radio buttons instead of drop down menus for the product options. I don't need you to tell me how this can be done (though ...
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Transferring data to the end of a transaction with the Shopp Plugin

I'm using the Shopp Plugin, and basically, I need to send an email to a unique email address field that I've created on the front end. The transaction has to complete fully before sending it. I mean, ...
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WordPress User Post Products

I want to build a website for a project with the following requirements: Any user can register They can post product by selecting a category, tags and uploading pictures Users can comment on the ...
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Could Wordpress be used/extended as a medium-size ecommerce site?

Is wordpress reliable enough and could it be used with a proper plugin as a medium sized ecommerce site? We are talking around 1500 products here, estimates say around 5 to 10 costumers per day, ...
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ecommerce plugin with “buy for a friend” feature

Does anyone know about any ecommerce plugin with a feature to send the purchase to a friend? I need that feature but I cannot find any around. I would appreciate any information on this.
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wp e-commerce - theme problem - why won't it load wpsc-single_product.php?

This is so frustrating! The theme i made myself works fine with wp-e-commerce (getshopped) plugin, but for some reason it won't load wpsc-single_product.php when i view a single product. When i ...
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Getting started with e-commerce sites on WordPress

Are there any good resources for building an e-commerce storefront? I am aware of the e-commerce plugins available but I am mainly interested in learning practices and techniques for the design and ...
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Display specific widgets in different area's around the page

I've installed the Jigoshop plugin to create an e-commerce site. It has several built in widgets that I want to use. Is it possible to pull out specific widgets and display them within a page ...
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How to show Best Selling WP E-Commerce Products

I'm trying (but failing) to create 'Best Sellers' and 'New Releases' pages for my website. I'm using WP-Ecommerce 3.8.4 with WP 3.1.3 and I've gotten close but can't seem to get it right. Any help on ...
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Using Jigoshop, how can I add a custom post type to the cart via code?

I want to programmatically add an item to the cart, and that item is not a product.. It's a custom post type that I am creating. I think I'm going in the right direction by using the Jigoshop cart ...
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Creating open content area and restricted content area

I'd like to create a site that has two separate areas of content. One for members with a payment system and another one for regular viewers that gives teasers so that they would want to read more and ...
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WP-eComerce Advance Meta Tag data in descending order

I am use WP-Ecommerce plugins for ecommerce support Now i am set custom meta like this and it will display in ascending order like this so i need to display it in descending order how can i do ...
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product export and import using xml

I am use eCommerce plugins for the eCommerce support in wordpress I am export my all product using Tools->export from my http://localhost/first wordpress site and i am try to import in my ...
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GetShopped Ecommerce: hide checkout form from customer until shipping country selected

I am using Wordpress Ecommerce by GetShopped, and on the checkout page there is a part where the user selects their country. By default, not all the available delivery options are displayed until the ...
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Recommende e commerce plugin for simple needs [closed]

I want to create a small ecommerce functionality for my site. Namely 4 products, payment via a Bank portal gateway. Nothing more. Which plugin do you recommend for such simple needs? Thanks
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WP E-Commerce creating categories programmaticaly

I was searching WP Ecommerce documentation, trying to find what function to use to add category to WPEC, but no luck. Is there some function or piece of code that can do this?
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All permalinks go to products page with WP E-Commerce plugin?

I realize that maybe this isn't the best place to ask this, but since getshopped.org (the makers of the plugin) don't seem to have any support form, AND since I am unable to access the forums I'm ...
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Shipping charge by country & product weight?

I am using WP E-Commerce plugin. In my e-commerce platform, there is two variable for product price. Its based on location (ie. india, usa, canada (not by continent)), and weight also. How can I ...
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Simple webshop-plugin?

Im looking for a simple plugin to make a site from which i can make orders for products. The whole shop should be under an own "tab" in the menu. It should be possible to use nested categories. Each ...
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WP-e-commerce (getshopped) Hebrew language files - where can I get them?

I’m working on a dual language website (english+hebrew) the website uses wpml+wpec. I’m looking for the hebrew language files (mo/po) – where can i get them?
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What plugins can I use to feature (affiliate) products on my blog (from Amazon.com)?

I know Amazon.com will pay affiliates (in some states, depending on tax laws) who send users to their website to buy a product. I've also seen some Wordpress sites that feature Amazon.com products ...

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